I don’t know if you are aware of the Web Marketing Associaton or not. I wasn’t until yesterday. Here’s how they describe themselves “an independent organization founded with the purpose of evaluating and recognizing the standard of excellence on the World Wide Web. The Web Marketing Association also has established the Internet Advertising Competition (IAC Awards) and the Interactive Investor Relations Awards.”

In addition to the awards they mentioned they also started the Web Award Competition. The winners have just been announced and you can see them all on their awards website. They’re listed by category which is pretty handy. No category for agriculture. However, there is one for biotechnology and the food industry. Maybe next year we can have some ag sites entered!!

Here’s who won the “Best of Show.”

The 2005 Best of Show WebAward is presented to Atlanta -based IQ interactive (www.iqtv.com), for their outstanding work on “National Geographic – Inside The Mafia” at URL www.insidethemafia.com. The site was also awarded Best Entertainment WebAward. To generate interest and viewers for the show, IQ Interactive was challenged to create a web site as engaging and compelling as the show itself. With a click, mysterious and intriguing rich media banner ads drive viewers straight to the full screen immersive interactive experience. Targeting a lifestyle demographic called New Enthusiasts, this dark and stylistic micro site engages in an almost game-like way. This discovery based site allows viewers to explore the world of the mafia through a variety of avenues, from full original animation, to a variety of video compositions and much more. The goal being to use video in a way that hasn’t been used before.